Andreas Kremsl,Manuel Schoenauer,Reinhold Bruestle
申请号:
US15370961
公开号:
US20180153509A1
申请日:
2016.12.06
申请国别(地区):
US
年份:
2018
代理人:
摘要:
Methods and systems are provided for an ultrasound probe including a small-angle adjustment element. In one embodiment, the small-angle adjustment element includes a piezoelectric actuator configured to rotate a transducer array of the ultrasound probe in response to electrical signals transmitted to the piezoelectric actuator. In this way, an amount of angle spanned by the transducer array during a scan of a region of interest may be reduced, thereby increasing a precision of the ultrasound probe.